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Statutory Instruments
National Assistance Services, England
Made
10th March 2011
Laid before Parliament
14th March 2011
Coming into force
11th April 2011
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 22(4) of the National Assistance Act 1948(1).
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Amendment (England) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 11th April 2011.
2. In regulation 2 of the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003(2), for “£22.30” substitute “£22.60”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Earl Howe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
10th March 2011
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 so that the weekly sum which local authorities in England are to assume, in the absence of special circumstances, that residents in accommodation arranged under Part 3 of the National Assistance Act 1948 will need for their personal requirements is increased to £22.60.
The Regulations come into force on 11th April 2011.
1948 c.29; See section 35(1) of that Act for the definition of “the Minister” and section 64(1) for the definition of “prescribed”. Article 2 of the Secretary of State for Social Services Order 1968 (S.I. 1968/1699) transferred all functions of the Minister of Health to the Secretary of State.
S.I. 2003/628; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2010/211.
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